Ironicwarcriminal posted:

aerdil posted:

how the hell do you not feel sad all the time you fucking weirdo

Because I have close friends, girls seem to like me, live in a beautiful city with a mild climate (you do too I know this!) and am reasonably prosperous. I just can’t wallow in sadness because I feel guilty about being sad because the majority of the world has it so much worse.

same, but dont have the friends closeby. it's like, i came from a small rural town, went to a good college w/ rich suburban kids, and now i guess I'm an urban yuppie with a good job. it's tremendously exciting for me to live in a city, where things are happening. but it's also sad because i miss all my degenerate buddies back home, they will probably never move here, and they are the best people.

I miss Saltovka!

Impper posted:

animedad u must hang out with us one of these weekends. it has been fated. we discussed u

oh, that's funny because we discussed you too... during our own meeting.

AmericanNazbro posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

GoldenLionTamarin posted:

living for aesthetics

i still really, really don't know what this means

to ascribe one's life to a higher purpose. to become Pure, Just: Beautiful, Divine. each day is an added brushstroke, a missing piece added to a mosaic--the ultimate destination is death--Yes. but that is not the goal. the goal is to transform the body, the mind--The Soul--into a work of art, that will transcend time, and humanity: to ascend the celestial, alongside God

This but uhh, un ironically.

stegosaurus posted:

I have no real grounding, I've read parts of capital once and only passages of the grundrisse, I gave up on ancient philosophy, I skip around, I dont follow through on things, like this article on the mormon left I was going to write, or another article on workplace safety during the cultural revolution, or one about roman religion expanded from a seminar paper. I also dont do anything except donate books or money to things, I'm a lamer for sure.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Trolling is the highest form of debate or dialogue. Higher than earnest philosophy because by it's very disingenuousness frees it from the shackles of sincerity or "logically-deduced" and passionately held convictions

But then what is passion? Nobody is wont to troll without motivation, and most trolls only feign that they "do not care," only saying that "nobody cares" in an attempt at demoralization.

What is genuine? A troll isn't bound by anything - it is unshackled from all things, even itself and the concept of reason. Trolling might be disingenuine from the perspective of an imperceptive reader, but it is always wholly true to itself, and a pure expression of the will and power of the troll.

AmericanNazbro posted:

i grew out a beard, even though it's slightly patchy.

Same here brother.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Here in the rhizzone we, like most politically inclined young people, like to hold forth on great matters and pontificate about the world like we’re pretty important and knowledgeable. These days, it seems the greatest sin of all to say “I don’t know”. No doubt there are many huge gaps in our knowledge that we all try and paper over or skid through on some slippery half-truths or cribbed knowledge, so let’s try and get these out in the open as a sort of…self-criticism of the digital age…..

PLEASE! NO IRONY!

I’ll start:

I have absolutely no fucking idea what “ontology” means

ontology, for a layman definition, is the study of how you can scientifically (i.e. systematically) come to understand/structure material reality. for example, orientalism (in its strictly discursive structure) relies on the ontological presupposition of there being an actual geographical/cultural/anthropological space which can risked being called the "orient."

VanguardYouAndDie posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:
Trolling is the highest form of debate or dialogue. Higher than earnest philosophy because by it's very disingenuousness frees it from the shackles of sincerity or "logically-deduced" and passionately held convictions


But then what is passion? Nobody is wont to troll without motivation, and most trolls only feign that they "do not care," only saying that "nobody cares" in an attempt at demoralization.

What is genuine? A troll isn't bound by anything - it is unshackled from all things, even itself and the concept of reason. Trolling might be disingenuine from the perspective of an imperceptive reader, but it is always wholly true to itself, and a pure expression of the will and power of the troll.

I care....I care about dialogue, about discourse, about ideas...in fact i care about them so passionately that it seems ludicrous to restrict a discussion of ideas to viewpoints or frameworks that I truly believe.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Confession: i miss the idiotic pomp, humour and bluster of westminster parliamentary politics and would dearly miss it under communism.

i mean just look at this glorious idiocy

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

jools posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:
jools posted:
stegosaurus posted:
I have no real grounding, I've read parts of capital once and only passages of the grundrisse, I gave up on ancient philosophy, I skip around, I dont follow through on things, like this article on the mormon left I was going to write, or another article on workplace safety during the cultural revolution, or one about roman religion expanded from a seminar paper. I also dont do anything except donate books or money to things, I'm a lamer for sure.
are you trying to claim this? i find it hard to believe Jools, i suspect you had a rather classical british education


i got a decent secondary education otoh i dropped out of university and am now NEETing

what do you fill your days/wallet with

ive been able to get a lot of reading done and i just do stuff that doesnt cost any money (cos i dont have any really). to be honest what i'm most worried about is that i don't find all this as bad as i feel i should.